Run WRF Case Studies
 

Important Notes – Please read!

• Complete the Initial Exercise, and then the Single Domain Case before moving on to others.


• It is not expected that you complete all the cases. Once you have run the Initial Exercise and the Single Domain Run, experiment with cases you are more likely to use in your research.


• Once you are more comfortable running cases, try the Set-up and Run Your Own Case exercise.


• All code has been precompiled to save time. A Compiling exercise is available if you want to experiment with compiling the code on these machines, but for all other exercises please use the pre-compiled code.


• You may find it handy to have a copy of the latest version of the WRF-ARW User's Guide open on your desktop. 


• You will need the output files from some cases (e.g., the Single Domain case) for future exercises. Please follow instructions at the end of each exercise to save those files before starting a new exercise.

If you are new to using Unix commands, please first go through this quick exercise to become familiar with some of the common commands.

Standard Practice Cases

It is recommend to start with these cases.


Initial Exercise     Run this exercise first!

Single Domain Run    Run this exercise second! - data from this exercise is used for several other exercises.

Restart the model

Two-way Nested Domain

Troubleshooting Exercise

Set-up Case and Run Exercise

Cases for Specific Options

Idealized cases

Setting up WRF for Climate Simulations

Vortex Following Case

Compute a diagnostic variable

Increasing Frequency of WRF Output Variables

Output Additional Variables in History Files

Output Time Series Data at Station Locations

Running with Adaptive Time Step

Spectral Nudging

One-way nested run using ndown

Compile Code

WRF & WPS for Real Data Cases

WRF for Idealized Cases

See the Compilation Web Page for compiling on your own machine.